I am not sure how making people post 5 comments before they are allowed to give a thumbs up is going to help with your troll problem. (by the way I am not a troll, but this is post 1/5 in my example of how it will not help)

I wasn't trying to be a jerk about these five posts, but trying to show how easy it is for anyone to bypass your "post five times rule" before giving a thumbs up. This is my 5th post of the required five postings.

simkatu wrote:I don't get it. How does this solution prevent multiple account holders from anything? They just need to make 3 posts from each account and they are still able to do whatever they want right? And who really cares anyway? If some doofus wants to log on three or four different accounts to give thumbs up or thumbs down, what is the real harm? It seems like the person harmed the most is the person with the multiple accounts who spends half his day worrying about the ratings of anonymous comments on some newspaper forum on the Internet.

simkatu wrote:I don't get it. How does this solution prevent multiple account holders from anything? They just need to make 3 posts from each account and they are still able to do whatever they want right? And who really cares anyway? If some doofus wants to log on three or four different accounts to give thumbs up or thumbs down, what is the real harm? It seems like the person harmed the most is the person with the multiple accounts who spends half his day worrying about the ratings of anonymous comments on some newspaper forum on the Internet.

A.... With all the badges, rules, do this, do that, because of trolls and scamers, your comments won't show up until.....Feels like a Newspaper is attempting to squash my Freedom of Speach as protected under the 1st amendment? You guys remember that one?

Yet another instance of poor service to your subscribers/customers. I have been a subscriber for over a year, and come online to comment on an editorial, and I can't do that or even Like or Unlike other comments, because I haven't posted 5 comments yet. I will just cancel my subscription, or do I have to cancel 5 times before you will accept it. Between you raising my home delivery charge before my subscription was up for renewal, and charging my credit card for an amount I had not approved, having an increasingly un-progressive editorial page (pro-GMOs now), and having a mess of a website, I can no longer support the Denver Post.

What a horrible system, should it matter if one has posted many times or just a few? What you are saying in effect is that only certain people have the right to express their opinions. Why don't you look at a site like Dealbreaker where you can up or down vote any comment without registering. Comments that make no sense deserve to be down-voted and not just by those whom you have deemed worthy.

None of this is going to matter much anyway. It appears that the DP (newly renamed "The Bloomberg Post", apparently) has finally instituted the long-awaited paywall; the death-knell of on-line newspapers everywhere. So it would seem that we're witnessing the final moments of the DP. I'll keep checking in occasionally, but I don't hold out much hope.So long, DP. And so long, hard-working, dedicated staff. You will be missed.

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